07-09-2015

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Eccentrics. The Sunny Side of the Street

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    GDYNIA: Janusz Majewski's spy drama The Eccentrics. The Sunny Side of the Street will have its premiere in the main competition at Gdynia Film Festival, 14-19 September.

    The film is an adaptation of Włodzimierz Kowalewski’s novel following the world of espionage and jazz in the 50's. Kowalewski also wrote the script. Maciej Stuhr plays the leading character, a jazzman called Fabian, and the cast includes Sonia Bohosiewicz, Joanna Kulig, Anna Dymna, Wojciech Pszoniak and Wiktor Zborowski.

    The Polish jazzman Wojciech Karolak composed the original music for the film. Shooting took place in March - May 2015.

    The film is produced by WFDiF in coproduction with Agora with a budget of 1.6 m EUR / 7 m PLN. The project was granted 712,000 EUR / 3 m PLN by the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl).

    Next Film will distribute the film domestically starting 1 January 2016.

    Production Information:

    WFDiF
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    00-724 Warsaw
    Phone: (22) 841 26 35
    Fax: (22) 841 58 91
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    www.wfdif.com.pl 

    Credits
    Director: Janusz Majewski
    Screenwriter: Włodzimierz Kowalewski
    DoP: Adam Bajerski
    Music: Wojciech Karolak
    Set designer: Andrzej Haliński

    Cast: Maciej Stuhr, Natalia Rybicka, Sonia Bohosiewicz, Anna Dymna, Wojciech Pszoniak, Wiktor Zborowski, Zofia Zborowska, Magdalena Zawadzka, Adam Ferency, Zbigniew Buczkowski, Władysław Kowalski, Marian Dziędziel